Addons for Firefox/IceweaselAdBlock Plus - Adblock Plus allows you to regain control of the internet and view the web the way you want to.BCExplorer for Firefox - BrightCloud category and reputation info as you browse!Beef Taco - Sets permanent opt-out cookies to stop behavioral advertising by 102 different advertising networksBetterPrivacy - BetterPrivacy is a safeguard which protects from usually not deletable LSO's on Google, YouTube, Ebay...BitDefender TrafficLight for Firefox - Adds a strong and non-intrusive layer of security to your browsing experienceCipherFox - Displays the current SSL/TLS cipher and certificate chain in the status bar.CookieSafe - This extension will allow you to easily control cookie permissions.Ghostery - Protect your privacy. See who's tracking your web browsing and block them with Ghostery.GoogleSharing - GoogleSharing ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit.HTTPS Everywhere - It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.HTTPS Finder - HTTPS Finder automatically detects and alerts when SSL is available on a web page. It also provides one-click rule creation for HTTPS Everywhere. Other features include an ignore-domain list, and "auto-forward" to HTTPS.Keylogger Beater - Use it to keep your username or password from being stolen by a keylogger.LinkExtend - Provides meta-site-ratings for computer safety, child safety, company ethics, and popularity.Master Password+ - Various enhancements for "master password"Netcraft Toolbar - Blocks phishing sites, helping to protect users from online fraud...NoScript - Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.OptimizeGoole - Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spamPhZilla - Firefox add-on to achieve anonymity in surfing, using web-based proxyPrivacySuite - One place to protect your privacy when you go online.RefControl - Control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis.RequestPolicy - Be in control of which cross-site requests are allowed.TrackMeNot - Protects users against search data profiling...Priv3 - Practical Third-Party Privacy for the Social Web (unnecessary when using adblock)WOT - The WOT add-on is a safe surfing tool for your browser.For Human Eyes Only - converts messages into images

FirewallThere's a lot of discussions about firewalls for Linux. It seems that you don't need one if you're a home user and not running a server. Arno-iptables-firewall - A secure stateful firewall for both single and multi-homed machinegufw - An easy, intuitive way to manage your Linux firewall; its in the repos. Shorewall - in the repo's.Ubuntu firewall – A management tool for multiple ubuntu firewalls in the cloudFirestarter – A firewall for LinuxYou can test your internet vulnerability with Shields Up

Host filehttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htmJust add the entries to your /etc/hosts file to block these sites. Take care: the bigger this file is, the slower your system might response. Best option is to restrict your host file interaction to the targets you have identified as malicious.

File, disk and mail encryptionBcrypt (file encryption, is in the debian repository)Ccrypt (file encryption, is in the debian repository)Cryptsetup (encrypt your swap and home partition)Enigmail is an addon for Thunderbird/Icedove to use pgp/gpg for sending/receiving emails. It's also in the Debian repository.Gnupg official site (free pgp) - Gnupg is in the Debian repositoryGPA (front-end for Gnupg, includes file decrytion: gpa --files)Seahorse (front-end for gnupg keys)Truecrypt - creates encrypted volumesFreeOTFE - like Truecrypt, but works with standard linux encryption like LUKS

Re: Tips for privacy and security

Addons for Firefox/IceweaselGhostery - Protect your privacy. See who's tracking your web browsing and block them with Ghostery.NoScript - Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.Beef Taco - Sets permanent opt-out cookies to stop behavioral advertising by 102 different advertising networksRefControl - Control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis.

Re: Tips for privacy and security

Firewall:- Turn off unused listening servers on your machine- Configure your daemons to be restricted to your local network or - even better - your machine, don't expose ports (by having listening servers on them). More important: refuse to use network related software unable to be configured that way. The less packages you need to filter, the less mistakes you make.- Don't expose SSH to the WWW. Instead you should tunnel everything through - say - VPN.

Hostfile:- Don't just put every ad-server into your host file. The bigger this file is, the slower your system might response (in a worst case scenario). Restrict your host file interaction to the targets you have identified as malicious.

Facebook:- Don't use it. EOL

Linux in general:- Don't trust every maintainer of a small spinn off distro with it's own repos to place malicious code in an update, so you won't... Hey, wait... what?

Re: Tips for privacy and security

Awebb wrote:

Firewall:- Turn off unused listening servers on your machine- Configure your daemons to be restricted to your local network or - even better - your machine, don't expose ports (by having listening servers on them). More important: refuse to use network related software unable to be configured that way. The less packages you need to filter, the less mistakes you make.- Don't expose SSH to the WWW. Instead you should tunnel everything through - say - VPN.

Awebb... can you tell me how to do these things? Do you have some links to howtos? I really don't know what i have to do to achieve these things. Are they important for home users, or just when running a server, or.....?

Re: Tips for privacy and security

Hey what's going on with the OP... it's getting bigger and bigger without editing by me! Some nice stuff is added, so that's cool, but who did it? And i would like to have a notification so i could check out these addons as well... Tuna